Just recently, I showed my “2017 ops” to someone and I told her that I wasn’t able to accomplish some major items on the list and it’s making me sad. She then told me that I should refocus my “year-end reflection” so that it has a more grateful tone instead of being hard on myself. …
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Shave the BS Off Using Occam’s Razor
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I try to always apply the concept of Occam’s Razor ever since I heard about it. I encountered this particular theory way back in 2013. Although Occam’s Razor is more commonly described in pop culture as “the simplest answer is most often correct”, it is quite an oversimplification. The more correct interpretation is that “entities should not…
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TIL: Redis Keyspace Notifications
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For some reason, I was figuring out a way to be able to listen to Redis so I can fire callbacks when the Redis command or event is encountered. I wanted to do something like: When a key gets removed from the sorted set, it will trigger a script that will notify a user. Browsing…
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OUR GLOBE BROADBAND CONNECTION HAS BEEN INTERMITTENT SINCE JANUARY
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Warning: This is an angry rant post. OUR GLOBE BROADBAND CONNECTION HAS BEEN INTERMITTENT SINCE JANUARY!!! If my memory serves me right, there have been 4 to 5 on-site teams that were sent to fix our connection to no avail. It all started during the Papal Visit…and then it never recovered from there. I’m not…
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Change is inevitable
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I’m getting used to it. In web development, it’s important to accept that everything you know right now will be replaced, altered, improved, updated or removed pretty soon. You can’t be too attached to your codes. Change is inevitable. In our industry, things are fast-paced. The best thing to do to keep up to speed…
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My 2015 Share-able Goals
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In no particular order of priority, here are my 2015 share-able goals: join and participate in a hobby group i.e. drone group or R-Pi group drink grown-up coffee (no more sweet coffee *le sigh*) continue my special “secret” project join 1-2 hackathons (and win at least 1) improve as a Rails dev blog at least once…
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To Its Credit, Google Refunded Bro’s 15K Purchase
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Like all kids nowadays, my 10-year-old brother plays a lot of computer and tablet games. One of his recent addictions is Clash of Clans. Apparently, my brother had a little mad shopping spree in Google Play Store. Long story short, my brother bought A LOT of things without my dad’s consent. By a lot, I…
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Met Matt Mullenweg in Manila
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My First Hackathon Experience
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Last Friday (May 9, 2014), I attended my first ever hackathon. The event is part of the “The 1st Philippine TechCamp : Disaster Risk Reduction and Response for Resilience Building”. Anyway, I was lucky enough to be paired with Steve who’s a “veteran“ when it comes to these kinds of events. #TechCamp Hackathon Day 1 The…
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The Struggle Is Rails
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Late last year, I’ve decided to put “Learn A New Language” in my goals for 2014. I thought I had all the confidence to do it– to take another step towards improving my programming skills tremendously, and learn another language. My officemates know Rails (Ruby) and I can easily ask them whenever they’re free. One…